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Archive for November, 2012

Splenda says their new zero-calorie sugar fix, Nectresse, is all-natural and comes from an Asian melon called monk fruit, or Lo Han. It’s a heat stable sugar that is safely extracted using water & heat instead of chemicals. That’s good… but there’s a sour side the story and I thought you’d like to know.

May as well just use Stevia (a truly all-natural zero-calorie sweetener)… or even plain old organic unrefined sugar…

Consider, too, non-food sources of sweet! Sweet rewards can be found in a laugh with a friend, a game of catch with a dog (as long as you have one of those ball-picker-uppers lest you get syrupy dog slobber all over you) or listening to the sweet sweet guitar riffs of a heavy metal band.

If life were chronicled in Batman comic, the frame showing GMO science slamming its fist into agriculture’s jaw would be followed by a large burst of orange italic letters: “GMO”

It’s a strongly polar topic: those who are pro-GMO either have lots of money in it, or don’t have the right information. The anti-GMO view is just so obvious… besides the fact we’re one of the very few countries that don’t require labeling, combining the DNA of plants and pesticides and then eating them or feeding them to babies is just… so… dumb.

I’m sharing this infographic done by NaturalNews.com followed by a recipe that it inspires me to make and guzzle.

It’s really important to eat a high-protein breakfast… cereal with milk just doesn’t cut it (but it does a great job of spiking your blood sugar and setting you up for a growling tummy and fierce doughnut cravings by 10 or 11am!)

Eggs are a great alternative (make a frittata ahead of time, grab a couple hard-boiled, scramble with fresh veggies), but if you can’t eat eggs (allergy or you just don’t like ’em), here are some options: